Quotes about Awareness
You cannot know wisdom. You can only be wisdom.
- Pam Grout
What I'd like to suggest in this three-day experiment is that all the important stuff you need to know is happening right outside your window, right there in your neighborhood, right in your own heart.
- Pam Grout
What you appreciate appreciates.
- Pam Grout
From first days in school, we are taught to listen to everything and everyone but ourselves, to take in all our clues about living from the people and powers around us.
- Parker Palmer
To protect our self-image, we kid, trick, and fool ourselves into believing the visible you is somehow real. To see ourselves as we really are, we must acknowledge our inability to do so without God's help.
- Patrick Morley
Weakness is not the problem, but my delusion of my strengths is.
- Paul David Tripp
Here's how gospel growth works: you cannot grieve what you do not see, you cannot confess what you haven't grieved, and you can't repent of what you haven't confessed.
- Paul David Tripp
There is no one we swindle more than we swindle ourselves. There is no one we run to defend more than we do ourselves. And like every other spiritually blind person, Joe was blind to his blindness.
- Paul David Tripp
One of the most important questions you could ask is: "What is God doing in the here and now?
- Paul David Tripp
In the busyness and self-centeredness of our lives, we sadly forget how much our lives have been blessed by and radically redirected by mercy.
- Paul David Tripp
We are comfortable when we should be concerned. We are passive when we should be active. We are satisfied when we should be dissatisfied.
- Paul David Tripp
You and I must live temptation-aware; to fail to do so is to fail to recognize the fallenness of the world that happens to be the address where we live.
- Paul David Tripp